Old School Heretics Whats Inside The Mysterious Tome d30 Table

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Magical notations describing, and capturing, the psychic despair of all insects throughout history ever entombed in amber. The energies will aide those seeking to escape imprisonment.

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The readers future diary, chronicling from the moment they found the book up to the seeming moment of their deathbut the last page is missing, and the narrative ends in an abrupt fashion.

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An alchemists diary, recording in exacting detail his daily diet and excretory records, weighed and measured. This is all written in a backwards, ancient language that can only be read by a 6th level magic-user.

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The dashing tales of derring-do of Waldo the Ubiquitous, that esteemed ancient adventurer known to have visited all the realms at least once, and half of them twice. Rumored to have been lost on his third voyage to Eastern Umfulkampf, it is said to contain the true secrets of how to travel light but still be ready to dungeon delve on a moments notice.

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No mutton? No lizards? No way! Everything in moderation, says Drugahl, Chief Cook to the Orc King. After all, some days only blood or umpf will hit the spot. In Chef Drugahls 30-Slaves to Get Ready Meals, the bestselling cookbook author serves up another helping of creative, hassle-free recipes that are ready to rock your taste-buds with the help of less than thirty slaves. Here, at last, are recipes for those who just cannot and will not live totally slave-free: Meat dinners made mostly with slightly rotted meats and no vegetables, fresh elven and dwarven sausage wraps, camp-style meat-pies, and tons of scavenging ideaswith and without ns and feathers! With more than 150 new dishes, plenty of time-saving tips, and a generous serving of Drugahls I will kill you attitude, 30-Slaves to Get Ready Meals proves you dont have to go to extremes to eat Orc-style!

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Its clearly a hoax. A transcription of a dialog between Orcus and Grazzt debating the relative merits of entering into demonic pacts with humans. Halfway through, the text changes to a partial translation of the ninth chapter of The Necronomicon for about 50 pages, and then theres this weird purple stain covering the rest of the pages in the book. Anyone touching the stain must make a Save vs. Insanity, or immediately strip o all their clothes and attack the nearest dwarf.

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The design plans for a cave complex for a keep somewhere near the borderlands.

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A series of variously-sized and sequentially-numbered tables. The entries are hazy and unclear, but the numbers stand out clearly and seem to oat above the page. Should a means of determining a random number, such as a die, be available to the charactersand courage be mustered to use thisa table of any kind and from any gaming resource may be chosen by the GM and the appropriate die rolled by a player. The text of the table entry rolled will clarify on the page of the tome, and may be read from the GM table by the players. Reality will ex almost imperceptibly and this table result will manifest in the experience of the characters in the game. It should be incorporated by the GM at the earliest opportunity, ideally at once. For each additional entry determined in this way by any character, the exing of reality also sees that character suer one repercussion from the d100 Repercussions Table.

10. Blueprints, schematics and operating tips for the dream-harvesting engine, perpetual motion dungeon turbines (handy for re-setting traps, powering spinning rooms, etc.), geodesic microverses, low-cost at-pack insta-dungeons, and the like. Also includes cuttings of articles on the use of purple worms in macro-culture soil aeration, Myconid hunting tips, the political economy of pillaging, etc. All the above are written and illustrated in the breezy style of the Whole Earth Catalogue, although occasional hints of loss and horror intrude. 11. A treatise exploring the failure of treaties between the elves and the dwarves, between elves and drow, between drow and dwarves, and the roll of gnomes in instigating the 1100 Year War. 12. Its just a lichs coloring book.

13. A rambling, unedited, stream-of-consciousness discussion of various spell-books and scrolls that Verdananmium the Mad found to be inspirational in his own magical research and spell creation. Several of his references are to tomes that clearly do not exist or attributed to the wrong archmage or necromancer. The names of spells are often confused with other, similar sounding names, and many of the spells, if cast in the form that Verdananmium has recorded them, will result in severe miscasting catastrophes. A message from The Wizards Guild stamped on the inside front cover strongly encourages its members not to trust the accuracy of the tomes contents. Those attempting to read the tome must make a Save vs. Insanity or be severely grumpy for 1d4 days. 14. Its a Cult of Baphomet tattoo codex. 15. Why, its a long lost copy of Paladin Kanamit Damons To Serve Man. 16. A full rendering of the life to date of a randomly-determined member of the party, including innermost thoughts and feelings, and abstract expressions of the most eeting experiences and half-perceptions. Leang through, the text is seen to be writing itself, running on line after line, and the act of this reading appears. The number of pages remaining may be of signicance, and the corporeal relationship of book and subject is unknown . . . 17. The book is a trap. If read, it will gradually steal all memories of the reader and add them to itself after the last recorded page, in the form of a story. It was originally read by those that were dying to preserve their life.

18. A census of the realm, including the amount collected or owed in taxes, rent, crops, etc. There is also an evaluation of each subjects fealty to the current ruling power. Each PCs name appears in the tome. There is a 35% chance that the information recorded for each PC is incorrect. 19. Its a copy of Uncle Screwtapes Infernal-to-Common Travel Dictionary. 20. Initially nothing, but a sharp reader may notice a slightly raised surface on the spine that when depressed causes the pages to light up and images appear, which may then be unlit in the same way. While the tome is hardly portable, extensive study may reveal wonders, represented by further rolls on this table. Unfortunately the tome will one day fail to respond. Further use will require discovery and application of the ow of a property of subatomic particles producing and interacting with a fundamental force. 21. That aint a bookits a dwarf Mimic! 22. Its not really a book. Its an elaborately disguised top to a chest. Its meant for arcane types and scholars who likely leave many open tomes in their workspace. Insert the key into the thin black space on the conveniently placed writing implement, and the whole top of the table, book included, will lift to reveal the storage area. (Roll again on this table to determine the fake contents of this fake book.) 23. Its a Tome of Many Tongues. 24. Upon these pages are writ the dreams of the Jeliai the Prophet. Known in his times as the dream scribe of King Aronus, Jeliai possessed an unusual adeptness at interpreting the dreams of others to predict right courses of actions. His own dreams, however, were plagued with nightmares of choices wrongly made and future catastrophes beyond his own time. Scholars and mages have been

arguing for ages over the correct interpretations of these recorded dreams and Jeliais attempts at interpretation, which are often written in vague snippets of doggerel poetry. (If the adventurers choose to read a page, roll 1d4 on the following sub-table.) 1.

If there is a bustle in the hedgerow Dont be alarmed now; Its just a spring clean For the May Queen.
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Were a ship without a storm. The cold without the warm Light inside the darkness that it needs; Were a laugh without a tear The hope without the fear, We are coming home. Were off to the witch.
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Generals gather at their masses Just like witches at black masses. Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of deaths construction. In the fields the bodies burning As the war machines keep turning.
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God of thunder of rock and roll The spell youre under Will slowly rob you of your virgin soul; Im the lord of the wastelands. A modern man of steel I gather darkness to please me I command you to kneel.

25. A full page ad for the toxin InstaGlue:

It stucks on me, It stucks on you, It must be InstaGlue!

The book is then glued to the person reading it. 26. A full page ad for a new series of collectible, quick-summoning monsters, InstaGrue:

It eats on me, It eats on you, It must be InstaGrue!

It will then instantaneously summon forth a horrible grue of random size. 27. A detailed and fully illustrated instruction manual for Githzerai martial arts. 28. A pornographic romance novel written in Dwarvish. If the PCs decide to read a page, they will nd one of the passages found at Uncle Walters Bad Romance Novel Quotes. 29. Thats pretty stupid. As you open the tome, a st appears between the pages and punch you in your face! Just like a Jack in the Box. Using the right formula (Klaatu, Burada, Nicto!), allows you to actually disarm the punching st and read the book. Roll again on the table to nd out about content. 30. The book is a colony of tiny wormlike creatures which form themselves into characters and images in line with pheromonal signals sent by the queen living in the binding. The queen herself is channelling a far vaster consciousness. Part of the colony may migrate with the reader.

d100 Repercussions Table

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Aicted with a stooped spine Frequently suer seizures Aicted with bowed legs Fingers become webbed Age backwards Go deaf in one ear Go deaf in both ears Skin turns an unnatural color Over the course of a week, one nger blackens, then falls o 10. Skin glows very faintly in the dark 11. Grow a pelt of shaggy fur over entire body 12. Loss of color vision 13. Grow an extra eye 14. Hair turns white, instantly and permanently 15. One limb twitches involuntarily, even when sleeping 16. Boils 17. Crops wither in the elds 18. Ears become elongated and pointy 19. Pupils change shape 20. Grow a wart 21. Grow a hairy wart 22. All hair falls out (except on hairy warts) 23. Relive the events of one (random) hour every day 24. Always smells faintly of brimstone 25. Hear (imaginary) constant, indistinct murmurings that others cant hear 26. Grow a tail 27. Uncontrollable drooling 28. Patches of reptilian scales develop 29. Trees bend slightly toward her. Those trees in the vicinity of her home grow in a way that points toward it. 30. Grow extra toes 31. Grow extra ngers 32. Slowed (50%) in actions and speech 33. Livestock sickens 34. Vomit frogs 1d6 times per day 35. Tongue splits down the middle 36. Haunted by a mildly destructive poltergeist 37. Articial lights within 10' will not stay lit, and any she passes are extinguished 38. Spontaneous pregnancy 39. Spontaneous pregnancy with a small mammal or reptile 40. Grow small goat horns 41. Pottery does not harden when red within ten miles of her 42. Visual perception lags behind reality by 10 minutes 43. Compulsion to look under every liftable rock she passes 44. Grow fangs 45. Bottomless sinkholes open in any spot she sleeps on for more than 3 nights 46. Permanently levitated 1/4" o ground, making walking dicult 47. Smoke emanates from mouth when speaking 48. Nearby malleable things (oatmeal, tea leaves, mud) form into the shape of agonized faces 49. Stigmata 50. Grow an additional ear 51. Skin become transparent

52. Strange lights in the sky at night 53. Any words spoken do not reach listeners ears for 1d6 turns 54. Animals no longer abide her presence 55. Human beings are invisible to her 56. Sleep for 101 days 57. Feet fall o, cloven hooves grow 58. 50-70 mph winds alway blow in vicinity 59. Age at double rate 60. Any words she writes change, and assume an ominous character 61. The ground makes noises like cracking ice wherever she walks 62. Flapping things ap on the roof at night 63. No reection 64. Only sleep every seventh night 65. Grow large antlers 66. Speech comes out in reverse word order 67. Hair becomes too strong to be cut by steel tools 68. A new, unexplained bruise every morning 69. Sweats blood 70. Must concentrate to keep consciousness attached to body or be locked-out for 1d6 turns 71. Risk of future Repercussions becomes 2 in 6 at minimum 72. Weeping sores 73. Weeping sore that whisper secrets 74. Physically vanishes after falling asleep; reappears in the morning frostbitten 75. Heart turns to stone and stops beating, yet she lives

76. Roll 1d6 every morning. A result of 1 means that a random personal possession vanished during the night. 77. No one believes (until it's too late) 78. Skin nodules swell for days, then burst to release spiders 79. Her bones creak loudly whenever she moves 80. Animals speak to her, but only abusively 81. Narcolepsy 82. Burned for 1d3 damage whenever touched by another person 83. Irises turn yellow like a wolf's 84. The sky is always overcast within 25 miles 85. Weekly rain of sh 86. Teeth enlarge 2-3 times, deforming jaw and palette 87. Leave footprints that smoulder 88. Entire body shrinks or grows up 2% and 500% of original size every day 89. Wood spurts blood when she chops it 90. Any clothing donned begins to rot and smell of the grave after an hour 91. Age 20 years instantly 92. Sometimes, the third law of motion (equal and opposite reaction) doesnt work for her 93. Learns she will die in exactly one year 94. On a roll of 1 in 6, any dead thing she passes near rises as undead 95. Hourly ts of involuntarily speaking dead languages 96. Plague 97. Blogger posts lose all paragraphing 98. Blindness 99. Instant death 100. Complete physical paralysis

Tome of Many Tongues The Tome of Many Tongues is an ancient tome written by a large number of dierent magic-users, clerics and sages over a period of some thousand years. The book always looks and feels old, but never seems to further age. It is remarkably tough, despite its fragile appearance, and makes any saves as though it were a 10th level cleric.

A magic-user or cleric can use the book to learn a language, for a limited time, and only the ability to read said language. They must have a copy of that language written down, as an example of the text. Flipping through the tome takes 1d6 rounds until the right language is found, and then a further round to absorb the knowledge contained inside. The user can then read that language for a number of hours equal to their Intelligence and have a 1 in 20 chance of being able to read the language forever after (once chance only, regardless of how many times that particular language is accessed).

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